Technology News & Articles

First UH-60V Helicopter with Open Architecture Avionics Suite for U.S. Army

Northrop Grumman has integrated its OpenLift open architecture avionics suite onto the first UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter for the U.S. Army to enhance aircrew situational understanding and mission safety while reducing pilot workload

Aug 27, 2021
U.S. Army Researchers Demonstrate Distributed Virtual Testing Ground

Researchers from the U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Lab have developed a virtual testing ground that shortens basic research innovation to days or hours by providing an architecture to connect a network of highly distributed testbeds

Aug 27, 2021
Multi-Domain Battlespace Connectivity for Utah Air National Guard

Collins Aerospace has collaborated with the Utah Air National Guard to demonstrate how innovative integrated solutions can bring joint connectivity and edge computing to meet emerging Joint All Domain Command and Control needs on the KC-135

Aug 26, 2021
New Combat Search & Rescue Radio Test Sets for U.K. MoD

General Dynamics Mission Systems' CTS-6025 Radio Test Set combines more than 16 separate test instruments into one device, offering fault detection and operational verification for both the HOOK2 and HOOK3 radios for the U.K. MoD

Aug 26, 2021
COMET Terminals for Non-US NATO Military Customer

Comtech will supply its Compact Over-the-horizon Mobile Expeditionary Terminal (COMET) terminals to a non-U.S. NATO military customer for use in scenarios where high bandwidth backhaul communications are required

Aug 26, 2021
New Air Combat Training Systems for Draken Europe’s Falcon 20 fleet

The Leonardo DRS Airborne & Intelligence Systems business has partnered with Collins Aerospace to deliver the Joint Secure Air Combat Training System for use on Draken’s Falcon 20 fleet for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy

Aug 25, 2021
U.S. Army Research Transforms Soldier-Robot Communications

U.S. Army researchers are developing a Natural Language Understanding pipeline for robots so that when a soldier speaks to them, the underlying intent is understood given the current conversational and environmental or situational context

Aug 25, 2021
Research into Use of Autonomous Vehicles for CBR Work

New investment will enable Dstl to research the potential use of autonomy and unmanned systems to survey areas for Chemical, Biological and Radiological (CBR) materials by developing a concept demonstrator for experimental trials

Aug 25, 2021
New Facility for Missile Propulsion System Manufacturing in the UP Defense Corridor

Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a unit in Jhansi to manufacture propulsion systems used for various types of missiles manufactured by BDL

Aug 25, 2021
NAWCAD Orders Advanced Data Transfer Systems

Mercury Systems will deliver a rugged data, video, and audio loader and recorder with cybersecurity capability to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) to securely move mission data to and from the aircraft for analysis

Aug 25, 2021
U.S. Air Force Awards Contract for Predictive Respiratory Monitoring Device

The Linshom Predictive Continuous Respiratory Monitor System is designed to be a portable, rugged, and comprehensive device that measures respiration rate, tidal volume, and other breathing data in real time

Aug 24, 2021
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